Technology in Education Today

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This paper discusses a pledge made by the Houston Independent School District (HISD) to help high school students achieve higher education levels and succeed in the 21st-century workforce. The paper explains that students of today require more advanced technical knowledge and skills and so high schools must correspondingly evolve to meet these new challenges. First, the aims of the HISD and its guiding principles are identified and then the paper takes a look at other schools in United States that have also been employing special structures, processes and strategies to improve the relevance and effectiveness of their high school programs.

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Discussion
Conclusion

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"Present-day high school education is structured to respond to an industrial economy. However, industrial economy has given way to a technology-driven one. Students of today require more advance technical knowledge and skills in order to survive and be competitive in a global economy. High schools must correspondingly evolve to meet these new challenges.
"For example, Internet literacy is fast becoming a determinant in the way our students learn in the future. Observations made on students which interact with text encountered on the internet show that they consider web text reading as different from print text reading. Oftentimes, readers are frustrated when using the internet and do not acquire instant answers leading them to adopt a snatch and grab philosophy. Other students who have limited experience in internet research have lower tendencies to evaluate information and often make their selection choices at random and in a rather hasty manner."

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